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Consider the social impact of NII development.
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Guarantee equitable and universal access to
network services.
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Promote widespread economic benefits.
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Promote diversity in content markets.
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Provide access to government services over the
NII.
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Protect the public spaces necessary to foster
community development.
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Encourage democratic participation in the design
and development of the NII.
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Think globally rather than nationally.
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Guarantee functional integrity throughout the
network.
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The policy guidelines are accompanied by the following design
recommendations:
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Emphasize ease of use.
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Provide full service to homes, workplaces, and
community centers.
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Enable all users to act as both producers and
consumers.
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Address privacy and security issues from the
beginning.
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Develop open and interoperable standards.
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Encourage experimentation and evolution.
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Require high reliability.
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In addition, CPSR also strongly endorses the principles set
forth by the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable in Washington,
D.C., of which CPSR is a member. The principles are as follows:
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Universal access:
All people should have affordable access to the
information infrastructure.
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Freedom to
communicate: The information
infrastructure should enable all people to effectively exercise
their fundamental right to communicate.
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Vital civic sector:
The information infrastructure must have a vital
civic sector at its core.
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Diverse and competitive
marketplace: The information
infrastructure should ensure competition among ideas and
information provides.
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Equitable workplace:
New technologies should be used to enhance the
quality of work and to promote equity in the workplace.
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Privacy: Privacy should be carefully protected and
extended.
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Democratic policy
making: The public should be fully
involved in policy making for the information
infrastructure.
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